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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Speculation: Is Episode 7 a "Silence of the Lambs" homage?

O.K., this is pure speculation, but here's my reasoning

that Episode 7 ("Entrée") a "Silence of the Lambs" homage:

In November it was announced that Eddie Izzard (wonderful actor, mad charity marathon runner and hopefully
the future Mayor of London) is guesting in Hannibal as an inmate at the
Baltimore State Hospital for the
Criminally Insane (the same facility where Hannibal Lecter is
eventually incarcerated).

Eddie’s character is claiming to be “the
infamous Chesapeake Ripper.” More on this at the very bottom of this article with potential spoilers.

Also in November we get the announcement that Anna Chlumsky be playing Miriam Lass, a young FBI trainee under the tutelage of
Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford. Now we know how Jack treats FBI trainees, he gets them to establish relationships with serial killers to see if they can extract information about other active killers, so _maybe_ Miriam Lass will be sent in to interview “the Chesapeake Ripper”.

UPDATE: Anna Chlumsky is listed in IMDB as being in Episode 7 - this is looking better!

Finally we get the announcement that Raul Esparza has been cast as Frederick Chilton, possibly the director of Baltimore State Hospital, bringing all the elements together for a Silence of the Lambs homage (comedy?), based on the assumption that it makes sense that Jack would have tried the strategy he used in Silence of the Lambs more than once.

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We
know the Hannibal is in fact the Chesapeake Ripper, therefore Eddie is
either a complete loon who isn't a serial killer at all (and maybe the
episode is a comedy?) or he is some kind or killer and is just taking
credit for other people's work!